Baraphrase – Transcribe, summarize and translate voice notes instantly

Transcribe, summarize and translate your voice notes quickly and easily with your favorite messaging apps.

Transcribe

Forward voice notes in any language to receive a transcript back instantly. Works with:

…and many more.

Forward voice notes in any language for a short summary. Works with:

…and many more.

Translate voice notes into your own language. All major languages are supported. Works with:

…and many more.

Your privacy is important. All of your user data, voice notes, transcriptions, translations and summaries are fully encrypted.

That doesn’t just mean the food is better – it means your data is out of reach of nasty autocrats.

We use and support open source software and protocols. We don’t use any large tech company infrastructure.

I built Baraphrase as a personal tool, and other people found it useful. You can find more information here.

Welcome to our 1,000th user! We’re now transcribing, translating and summarising 24hrs of voice notes every month.
We don’t retain any user data, but to make sure we’re even better protected we’ve moved all our infrastructure to the EU.
My hope is to keep Baraphrase free and without limits for as long as possible, however I’ve had to ban a few people recently who were abusing the service. Don’t be surprised if you see a daily usage limit come into force soon.

It took us 6 months to process our first 24 hours of voice notes, and only 2 months to process another 24 hours!
Launched some infrastructure optimisations to improve speed, reduce reliance on third-party services, and deal with larger volumes.

Celebrating a full 24 hours of voice notes transcribed, summarized and translated 🥳
Removed the ability to add Baraphrase bots to group chats as people were doing some weird stuff with them.
Added better error handling for weird audio formats.

You will now receive summaries in the language of the voice note you send.
We can now translate between hundreds of different language pairs. Receive translations in any combination of:
- Arabic
- 🇨🇳 Chinese
- 🇩🇰 Danish
- 🇳🇱 Dutch
- 🇬🇧 English
- 🇫🇷 French
- 🇩🇪 German
- 🇬🇷 Greek
- Hindi
- 🤌 Italian
- 🇯🇵 Japanese
- 🇰🇷 Korean
- 🇵🇹 Portuguese
- 🇷🇺 Russian
- 🇪🇸 Spanish
- 🇸🇪 Swedish
- 🇹🇭 Thai
- 🇹🇷 Turkish
- 🇺🇦 Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Plus many others
Remember we’ll automatically translate your voice note into your phone’s default language.